Matthew 22:23–34

THE SADDUCEES AND THE RESURRECTION

²³That same day some Sadducees,^t who say there is no resurrection, came up to him and questioned him:^{u 24}“Teacher, Moses said, if a man dies, having no children, his brother is to marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.^{Bv 25}Now there were seven brothers among us. The first got married and died. Having no offspring, he left his wife to his brother. ²⁶The same thing happened to the second also, and the third, and so on to all seven. ²⁷Last of all, the woman died. ²⁸In the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? For they all had married her.”^C

²⁹Jesus answered them, “You are mistaken, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God. ³⁰For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like^D angels in heaven.^{w 31}Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God: ³²I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob?^Ea He^F is not the God of the dead, but of the living.”

³³And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.

THE PRIMARY COMMANDS

³⁴When^b the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they came together.